JULIEN BONET - Filtered

Technique: Promptography on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Size: 50 x 40 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2023

Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

Filtered

A figure composed of mirrors. Sharp-edged rectangles hover around the body like fragments of a shattered identity; they simultaneously reveal and conceal. Between the cracks, skin flashes, fragile and exposed, while the mirrors only reflect the sky and the landscape.

In the artist's words: "A costume that allows you to project part of your own reflection onto another person's body."

Filtered speaks of an intimacy that exists only mediated. We recognize ourselves in the image of the other—filtered by expectations, by technology, by fragments of perception. The figure becomes a projection surface for both longing and self-image: a body that no longer belongs to itself but becomes a medium of collective reflections.

In the context of the series Maskeraden (Masks) , this work raises one of the most subtle questions: What remains of the self when every encounter is pre-formed by reflections and digital filters? Filtered doesn't answer, but rather reveals the rift—and makes it visible as beauty.

Part of the ongoing series Masquerades – contemporary myths between fear, ritual and collective memory.